v Prov. ii. 4, xiv. 6; Eccl. Vii. 26.
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“airotot, καὶ Ἕλληνες * σοφίαν Ἡ ihe xii. 35
eVE I, XXIV. 3; Lk. xxiii. 8; 7 times w xv. 12; 2 Cor, i. 10, xi. 43 Ph. i. 15;
xii 2; Gal. iii. 1; Mt xxviii 5.
exc. L. Τ.Κ. conforms to Gosp. parls.
(κήρνξις), but the message proclaimed by God’s herald (κῆρνξ, see parls.: the heralding suggests thoughts of the king- dom ; cf. Acts xx. 25, Luke viii. 1, etc.). P. designates Christians by the act which makes them such — “those that believe’’ (see parls.). God saves by faith. Faith here stands opposed to Greek knowledge, as in Rom. to Jewish law- works.
Vv. 22-25 open out the thought of ver. 21: ‘the world” is parted into “ Jews” and “Greeks”; pwpta becomes σκάν- δαλον and pwpia; the κήρυγμα is de- fined as that of Xpiorés ἐστανρωμένος;: and the πιστεύοντες reappear as the κλητοί. Both Mr. and Al. make this a new sentence, detached from vv. 20 ,, and complete in itself, with ἐπειδὴ καί κ.τ.λ. for protasis, and ἡμεῖς δέ κ.τ.λ. for apodosis,—as though the mistaken aims of the world supplied Paul’s motive for preaching Christ; the point is rather (in accordance with 20) that his ‘ foolish” message, in contrast with (δέ, 23) the desiderated ‘‘ signs” and ‘‘ wisdom,” con- victs the world of folly (20); thus the whole of vv. 22-24 falls under the regimen of the 2nd ἐπειδή, which with its καί, emphatically resumes the first ἐπειδή (21)—‘‘ since indeed”. God turned the world’s wise men into fools (20) by bestowing salvation through faith on a ground that they deem folly (21)—in other words, by revealing His power and wisdom in the person of a crucified Messiah, whom Jews and Greeks unite to despise (22-24).
Ver. 22. ᾿Ιουδαῖοι . . . Ἕλληνες--- anarthrous; ‘‘ Jews” qua Jews, etc.: in this “‘asking’’ and ‘‘seeking” the char- acteristics of each race are “hit off to perfection” (Ed.: see his interesting note); αἰτεῖν expresses “ the importunity of the Jews,” ζητεῖν “ the curious, specu- lative turn of the Greeks” (Lt.). For the Fewish requirement, cf. parls. in the case of Jesus; the app., doubtless, were challenged in the same way—P. perhaps publicly at Cor.: ‘non reperias Corinthi signum editum esse per Paulum, Acta xvii.” (Bg.). Respecting this demand, see Lt., Biblical Essays, pp. 150 ff. Such dictation Christ never allowed;
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